• Signtist@bookwyr.me
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      11 days ago

      Yeah. For someone to be electable, they would need to get nearly 50% of the total votes, since they’d need to beat out the Republican party, which consistently gets high 40’s, but all it would take to disrupt the Democrats is to pull enough people away for them to dip below the Republicans’ number, which is usually less than 5% of the total votes. A whole order of magnitude of wiggle room between those 2 scenarios.

    • Clambake0351@piefed.zip
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      11 days ago

      Not saying it’s a good thing, but wacky people can’t seem to comprehend that it’s possible for more… Let’s call them traditional Democrats could be turned off by Leftists, than there are Leftists turned off by Democrats.

      Either way though, Republicans profit from the infighting to the left and people’s inability to compromise.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        If only liberals could Vote Blue No Matter Who, the way leftists have been doing for the past several decades.